Re: build from source

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 5:37 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> No yodl here.  But my next step was to get all the help stuff installed, that seems the most complicated thing.  INSTALL says you can just grab everything pre-cooked 'at the same place as the source'

That assumes you downloaded a tarball.  Very little about INSTALL
applies to building from git export.

> Is there an easy way?  Or I'll just grab yodl and do it the hard way.

No easy way until we actually do a release.

> Test ./C02cond.ztst failed: bad status 1, expected 0 from:
>   [[ $newnewnew -nt $zlnfs && ! ($unmodified -nt $zlnfs) ]]
> Was testing: -nt cond
> ./C02cond.ztst: test failed.
> Test ./C02cond.ztst failed: bad status 1, expected 0 from:
>   [[ $zlnfs -ot $newnewnew && ! ($zlnfs -ot $unmodified) ]]
> Was testing: -ot cond
> ./C02cond.ztst: test failed.
>
> ... so it's looks like two errors very similar.  Ignore?

Yes, the "older than" error is just the reverse of "newer than".

> Question, after getting the help done, next thing is 'make install', now will that overwrite my existing 5.8?

It may replace the binary that's named "zsh" but will leave behind one
named "zsh-5.8" (you should check that exists before running "make
install").  I don't know where/how you got your 5.8 install so "make
install" from source might use completely different directory paths
and everything from both will hang around.